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    Arrow Bunkers, Pillboxes and other small military things.

    i've been out and about bunker hunting again this lot are from around the whittlsea & peakirk area

















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    Default Re: bunkers

    i've been told this was a look out and machine gun position.its just on the side of a river near king lynn.





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    Default Re: bunkers

    Quote Originally Posted by bootsy View Post
    i've been told this was a look out and machine gun position.its just on the side of a river near king lynn.




    A local site to me.

    Nothing so trivial as a machine gun post, this is King's Lynn Coastal Defence Battery. It was (briefly) equipped with two 6" guns, but may never have been operational before the guns were removed to another battery in Northumberland.

    The tall building is the battery observation post, other structures are the magazines, the gunhouses, crew shelters, and in the distance on your last shot a unique close defence pillbox/bunker (a modification to a standard drawing number).

    I have some old shots, once I get them updated I'll add a report.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SaltGeorge View Post
    A local site to me.

    Nothing so trivial as a machine gun post, this is King's Lynn Coastal Defence Battery. It was (briefly) equipped with two 6" guns, but may never have been operational before the guns were removed to another battery in Northumberland.

    The tall building is the battery observation post, other structures are the magazines, the gunhouses, crew shelters, and in the distance on your last shot a unique close defence pillbox/bunker (a modification to a standard drawing number).

    I have some old shots, once I get them updated I'll add a report.
    Definately a BOP :-)

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    Default Re: bunkers

    then i had little trip to RAF Holbeach Bombing Range. not much there really but a few interesting items





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    [QUOTE=bootsy;32722]then i had little trip to RAF Holbeach Bombing Range. not much there really but a few interesting items
    Great photos

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    Arrow east anglia pillboxes and emplacements

    after seeing bootsys thread i thought id stick a few of ours up,mods please feel free to merge if having two threads is not ok,thanks
    bawdsey manor

    bawdsey lane east

    blythburgh

    bawdsey lane east

    bradfield

    west beckham

    lavenham

    upwell

    upwell again
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    Default Re: east anglia pillboxes and emplacements

    Quote Originally Posted by oneandsix View Post
    after seeing bootsys thread i thought id stick a few of ours up,mods please feel free to merge if having two threads is not ok,thanks
    bawdsey manor

    bawdsey lane east

    blythburgh

    bawdsey lane east

    bradfield

    west beckham

    lavenham

    upwell

    upwell again

    i know you posted this years ago, but can you tell me where that one in Blythburgh is?

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